Nutrient Concentration & Water Reclamation™ System

The Nutrient Concentration & Water Reclamation (NCWR)™ System can process raw wastewaters, manures, and digestates, and separate the flow into clean, reusable water–ideal for facility re-use or discharge–and concentrated liquid fertilizer. With most materials, we can recover more than 70% of the total volume as clean water while concentrating the nutrients about 3-5x.

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Key Benefits

Reduced disposal costs

By filtering water onsite, we help you reduce wastewater disposal costs and transportation, while encouraging water reuse.

Reduced freshwater consumption

By reclaiming water from your waste stream, you can reduce freshwater consumption.

Reduces environmental impact of wastewaters

By concentrating nutrients, runoff associated with land application can be reduced. Water reclamation and onsite discharge or reuse also helps keep trucks hauling wastewater off the roads.

Opportunity for facility expansion

By reducing wastewater volumes, facilities can expand production without requiring new land for spreading or larger lagoons for storage.

Generates value-added products

Concentrated products can be used or sold as fertilizers, or disposed offsite at lower costs.

How it Works

Step 1 Coarse Solids Removal

Typically we employ screw-presses, rotary screen, or sloped screens to remove large fibrous solids from wastewaters prior to treating them with ultrafiltration.

Here are two FAN Screw-Presses installed at Majestic Crossing Dairy making fiber from raw dairy manure.

Step 2 Ultrafiltration

For high-solids wastewater like manure or digestate, we first process it using our proprietary stainless steel ultrafiltration modules. Our unique module geometry and stainless steel construction ensures high filtration rates, easy cleaning, and long filter life (10+ years!). The UF modules contain porous metal tubes, allowing them to capture of all the suspended solids, bacteria, and even some larger dissolved compounds. This process results in a thick concentrate stream and a clarified product we call UF Permeate (or sometimes called “tea-water”).

Designed to last 10-15 years with little downtime, maintenance, or repair

Can be mounted horizontally or vertically

This is an 18″ x 10′ UF module installed at Majestic Crossing Dairy in Sheboygan Falls, WI. It has been running since late 2016 and effectively processing digested dairy manure, producing a UF permeate with very little phosphorus (<0.2 lbs/1000 gal) and almost no suspended solids or pathogens.

Step 3 Two Step Reverse Osmosis

The liquid “tea-water” or UF permeate that exits the UF module is then pumped through our Two-Step Reverse Osmosis (TSRO) process. Instead of exposing traditional RO membranes directly to the UF permeate, which can still contain a large amount of dissolved organic matter that leads to fouling and poor performance, we use another membrane process to first remove the water from the UF permeate. This liberated water is then recovered using reverse osmosis, resulting in a very clean final effluent that is suitable for drinking water for animals, reuse onsite as washdown water, for irrigation, or river discharge. This two-step process results in an overall lower cost of treatment, higher amount of water recovery, and less energy consumed. Digested Organics has obtained a discharge permit from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to put water reclaimed from manure into a waterway.

Some benefits of our TSRO Process include:

Proprietary dual-membrane system

Produces drinking or discharge quality water

Energy-efficient

High resistance to fouling means little downtime for cleaning

Modular design is scalable to any size operation

Step 4 UV Disinfection

The final step is a redundant disinfection using ultraviolet (UV) light. Since nearly all organisms are considered to be removed by the UF and TSRO, this UV disinfection step is simply an extra precaution. Multiple safeguards ensure that our system will not release water that is not properly treated.

Have manure, digestate, leachate, or another wastewater?

Let us bring our demo skids to your facility for an evaluation of our technology. We’ll collect the data we need to accurately size a system for your full flow and you’ll get to the system make clean water and concentrated fertilizer.

Please give us a call to schedule your trial today!

UF Demo Skid

TSRO Demo Skid

Competitive Advantages

NO polymers or flocculants

Our systems does not rely on expensive polymers and chemicals–just filtration! This keeps operating costs low, reduces water use and labor required for polymer blending, and keeps chemical residues out of the products. This means we can create Organic Certified Fertilizer products.

Fully automated for continuous operation

Little to no operator attention required on a regular basis; easy to remotely control and monitor.

Energy efficient

Keep power costs low with our high-efficiency filtration solutions.

Compact and space efficient

Proudly made in the USA

Comprehensive Service Plan

We have created a Comprehensive Service Plan (CSP) to cover all the associated operating costs of the NCWR system with the exception of electricity. With the CSP, you know upfront what it will cost you to process your wastewater. In every case we’ve looked at to date, our system can substantially reduce a facility’s cost for wastewater management. We also remotely monitor the performance of your system and make adjustments as needed, as well as perform quarterly visits for inspection and tuning, provide all required consumables, and ensure your 100% satisfaction.

Please call us for a customized evaluation of your waste management needs and to receive a quote for a Nutrient Concentration & Water Reclamation™ System!